Daniel Goldhagen broadens the indictment he leveled in his book "Hitler’s Willing Executioners" in his latest book, "Worse than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity".
In what appears to be a searing, and depressing, book - as reviewed on Tablet - the reviewer writes, in part quoting Goldhagen:
“The number of people who have been mass murdered [in the 20th century] is, conservatively estimated, 83 million,” he writes early on. “When purposeful famine is included, the number becomes 127 million, and if the higher estimates are correct the total number of victims of mass murder may be 175 million or more.” This means than between 2 and 4 percent of all deaths in the last century were due to genocidal violence—and that is not including deaths in “ordinary” warfare."
And we claim that we live in a civilised world!........and then there is the now familiar refrain at the end of WW2 "never again".
In what appears to be a searing, and depressing, book - as reviewed on Tablet - the reviewer writes, in part quoting Goldhagen:
“The number of people who have been mass murdered [in the 20th century] is, conservatively estimated, 83 million,” he writes early on. “When purposeful famine is included, the number becomes 127 million, and if the higher estimates are correct the total number of victims of mass murder may be 175 million or more.” This means than between 2 and 4 percent of all deaths in the last century were due to genocidal violence—and that is not including deaths in “ordinary” warfare."
And we claim that we live in a civilised world!........and then there is the now familiar refrain at the end of WW2 "never again".
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